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Internet Explorer is Killing Chrome in Browser Wars, But Also Losing - Huh?

Posted 05/02/2013 at 9:14am | by Paul Lilly

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Conflicting data makes it difficult to gauge the browser landscape.

Depending on which data collection service you trust the most, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is either wiping the floor with Google's Chrome browser, or getting spanked by the relative newcomer. Starting with the former, NetMarketShare has IE way out in the lead with a 55.81 percent share of the desktop browser market, virtually unchanged from last month and up a little more than a percentage point from a year ago.

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YouTube Now Serving Up 6 Billion Hours of Video Each Month

Posted 05/02/2013 at 8:40am | by Paul Lilly

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It would take many, many lifetimes to watch all of YouTube's content.

Three ex-PayPal employees created YouTube just over eight years ago, but do you think any of them could have predicted just how popular the video sharing site would become? Perhaps, though it would have been hard to conceive of a service streaming out 6 billion hours of content each and every month, which is how much YouTube is currently piping through the Internet.

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World Wide Web Turns 20 Years Old, Where Were You Back Then?

Posted 04/30/2013 at 8:32am | by Paul Lilly

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Tim Berners-Lee helped change the world more than two decades ago.

If you plan on going out to eat today, save room for dessert and order a slice a cake in honor of the web's 20th birthday. That's right, it's been two whole decades already, though the wheels were set in motion several years before in 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist working at CERN, first proposed an information management system that would later become the World Wide Web. These days he serves as the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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CPUBoss Creators Launch SSDBoss for Storage Shoppers

Posted 04/23/2013 at 7:45am | by Paul Lilly

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A quick and easy way to compare solid state drives.

The same people who brought you CPUBoss and GPUBoss have now launched a similar comparison website for solid state drives. SSDBoss.com is nearly identical in form and function to the other two sites, offering storage shoppers an easy way to compare the performance and value of different SSDs. You can also look up full spec comparisons of various drives, all under the hood of a single site.

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Razer Accidentally Leaks 90 Percent Off Promo Code, Will Honor Purchases

Posted 04/19/2013 at 11:38am | by Paul Lilly

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Some lucky gamers in the U.K. received a massive discount on Razer peripherals.

Razer today issued a statement via email in regards to a leaked 90 percent off coupon code for its U.K. portal that went viral, resulting in thousands of orders being placed in the span of just a couple of hours. This wasn't an authorized or approved coupon code, but one that was generated by a third party in order to test the site's shopping cart. Even so, Razer said it will honor the discounted orders that were placed.

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Warner Brothers Brings MOBA Gameplay to DC Multiverse with Infinite Crisis

Posted 03/25/2013 at 11:28am | by Paul Lilly

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Play as popular DC Comics characters reimagined, such as Nightmare Batman.

Turbine Entertainment is developing an all-new multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game featuring a deep roster of DC Comics characters, Warner Bros. Entertainment and DC Entertainment announced today. It's called Infinite Crisis, a free-to-play game in which you'll battle other players in the DC Multiverse using a wide variety of heroes and villains that are "twisted incarnations" of their regular selves, such as Nightmare Batman and Gaslight Catwoman.

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GPUBoss Adds Commenting Feature, Launches to the Public

Posted 03/19/2013 at 7:19am | by Paul Lilly

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GPU comparison website helps nail down the exact graphics card you're looking for.

Last week we gave you heads up about GPUBoss.com, a new website that offers to do for graphics cards what CPUBoss.com does for processors, which is make it easy to sort through the available options and compare different models from a number of criteria. You can actually choose from over 40 criteria to find the video card that best fits your needs, and can sort by price, brand, gaming performance, noise, power, and performance per dollar. It's a pretty handy website and it's now open to the public.

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Google Reader is a Dead RSS Walking

Posted 03/14/2013 at 9:44am | by Paul Lilly

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Will anybody miss Google Reader once it's gone?

Google is doing a bit of spring cleaning and one of the services it's kicking to the curb is Google Reader, the sultan of search announced in a blog post. It's been an eight-year run for Google Reader, which launched in 2005 but has recently been declining in usage. So, on July 1, 2013, Google is throwing its RSS a forced retirement party, giving users a good three months to export their data and subscriptions with Google Takeout.

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GPUBoss Does for GPUs What CPUBoss Does for CPUs

Posted 03/13/2013 at 9:29am | by Paul Lilly

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New website allows you to sort through graphics cards like a GPUBoss.

A couple of months ago, we were introduced to CPUBoss.com, a handy website that sought to make it easy to sort through and compare different processors. We thought it was an interesting concept, and apparently so did you -- the site now generates 15,000 visitors a day, we're told. But what if you're in the market for a graphics card? That's where GPUBoss.com comes in.

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E.U. Slaps Microsoft with $731 Million Fine Over Botched Browser Ballot

Posted 03/06/2013 at 7:42am | by Paul Lilly

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A "technical error" related to a Windows Service Pack ends up costing Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.

It was rumored the European Union wanted to close its investigation into Microsoft's "browser ballot" screw-up and levy a fine before Easter break, a mission it's now achieved with weeks to spare. E.U. regulators decided to punish Microsoft to the tune of €561 million, or a little more than $731 million in U.S. currency, for failing to comply with an agreement to provide users with a browser choice screen (the so-called browser ballot) upon firing up Windows for the first time.

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